Samsung Electronics has been quietly working on the next-generation Wi-Fi standard and now it has finally made an announcement regarding its 60GHz Wi-Fi technology. The company claims that this new technology will bring a “five-fold increase” from 866 Mbps or 108 MB per second which is the existing maximum speed possible in consumer electronics devices.
The claim here is that Samsung’s 60GHz Wi-Fi technology will bring data transmission speeds of up to 4.6 Gbps which will translate into 575 MB per second, the aforementioned five-fold increase. This would mean that a 1GB movie will take less than three seconds to transfer between devices.
The existing widely used Wi-Fi standard works on 5GHz dual-band which supports a maximum of 108 MB per second. In reality this speed is rarely achieved. Samsung’s 802.11ad standard 60GHz Wi-Fi will achieve maximum speed by eliminating co-channel interference, which is basically crosstalk from two devices connected to the same network.
One of the reasons why 60GHz Wi-Fi technology has not been widely adopted up till now is because of weak signal throw which made it nearly impossible for these signals to penetrate walls. Samsung has leveraged millimeter-wave circuit design and high performance modem technologies to work around this and claims to have achieved “commercially viable” 60GHz Wi-Fi technology.
Samsung plans to commercialize this technology in 2015 and we can surely expect it in the company’s mobile devices. Samsung will also be focusing on bringing this technology to its Smart Home division as well as telecommunications equipment and audio visual devices.
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